The Self-Destruction Video
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- Jan 25, 2019
From AmbrosiaforHeads - In the late 1980s, Rap music had a problem. At the time the genre was exploding with national and overseas tours, incidents were taking place at some of those concerts that were smearing the reputation of the Hip-Hop culture. As the safety of show-goers was a significant concern, [...]
IN PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS – KID CUDI
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- Jan 22, 2019
Crush a bit, little bit / Roll it up, take a hit / Feeling lit, feeling right. Inizia così In Pursuit of Happyness, terzo singolo estratto dall’album Man on the Moon: The End of Day di Kid Cudi, prodotto dal duo elettronico Ratatat con il featuring di MGMT. Kid Cudi [...]
STILL BLAZIN – WIZ KHALIFA
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- Jan 15, 2019
Marijuana minutes, nigga time slow / On a kush clock, there's always time to smoke. In una dimensione temporale alterata dal tetraidrocannabinolo, il tempo si dilata e se l’orologio è a base di Kush (una tipologia di marijuana), c’è sempre tempo per fumare. Why can't everyone just smoke like me? [...]
Angela Davis Speaks Out
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- Jan 12, 2019
In a Democracy Now! exclusive, legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis speaks out after the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute rescinded a human rights award for her, reportedly due to her activism for Palestinian rights. In September, the institute announced that it would award Davis the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights [...]
BREAKFAST – CURREN$Y
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- Jan 08, 2019
I kept my promise rolled bamboos in the Bahamas / Mama it's either that or them strawberry colidas. Godersela alle Bahamas fumando erba sin dalla mattina e bevendo i cocktail più popolari dell’isola, Bahama Mama o Colida alla fragola. Il riferimento alla mariujana che a Curren$y, MC di New Orleans, [...]
HOW HIGH – METHOD MAN & REDMAN
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- Jan 01, 2019
Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane / It's the funk Doctor Spock smokin' Buddha on a train / How high? So high that I can kiss the sky. Immaginate di fare un tiro da una canna e di lasciar uscire una nuvola di fumo. In [...]
SCHOOL HIGH – JOEY BADA$$ & PRO ERA
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- Dec 26, 2018
To blaze or not to blaze that is the question / First day of school late, already in suspension, rappa Joey Bada$$ in School High mentre vaga con la sua crew, Pro Era, per le strade di Brooklyn in uno stato di intensa alterazione mentale. Joey e i membri della [...]
From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You.
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- Dec 22, 2018
THE GUARDIAN ///// From psychedelic sketch shows to far-out satire, black artists are expressing the absurdity of life in a racist society by embracing the disturbing and bizarre. ////// There he was, dangling into the void. Sinking, arms outstretched, helplessly clawing at the air. Jordan Peele’s satirical horror Get Out [...]
GIN&JUICE – SNOOP DOGG
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- Dec 18, 2018
"With so much drama in the L-B-C / It's kinda hard bein Snoop D-O-double-G", iniziano così le giornate a Long Beach, a Compton o in qualsiasi ghetto nero d’America, con una serie di difficoltà che rendono inevitabilmente dura la vita di chiunque. “But I, somehow, some way / Keep comin [...]
I WANT TO GET HIGH – CYPRESS HILL
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- Dec 11, 2018
“I want to get high, so high!”, suona così uno dei pezzi più famosi dei Cypress Hill, incluso nello storico secondo album del gruppo, Black Sunday. Il ritornello, divenuto in breve il mantra dei fumatori, è un rimando esplicito a Rita Marley e al refrain della sua One Draw ma [...]